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Subject: Re: Is it time for the Winboard Protocol to go the way of the Dodo?

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 11:20:34 03/09/05

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On March 09, 2005 at 12:13:26, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>After the post on how Daniel Mehrmann is still working on XBoard/Winboard, I
>immediately starting thinking of ways to waste his time.  My question is: Does
>Winboard really have any advantages over UCI any more?
>
>The Anthony WB/UCI comparison:
>
>+UCI:
>
>Interface is cleaner & easier to implement, not being based on the crappy GNU
>chess protocol.
>
>Supports Multiple PVs, refutations, etc.
>
>Graphical configuration of engines.
>
>+WinBoard:
>
>Can operate in text mode.
>
>And this comparison is (obviously) quite favorable to UCI, although I may have
>missed things.  Anyway, I'd be willing to help Daniel out over the next few
>weeks if it meant a new version of Xboard with UCI support, and I'm guessing
>there would be a few other people willing to help out as well.
>
>anthony

I know nothing about this, as I've used only Xboard/WinBoard since I started PM.
Is there any Xboard-equivalent UCI interface on Linux or other platforms?

Andrew



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